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In today's landscape, international relations could be as volatile as the weather.

It's essential to stay updated on the world's current events.

In a recent warning, the Australian government called Australians living in this country to pack their bags and go back to The Land Down Under for safety purposes.

The Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) urged Australians living in Lebanon to leave immediately.

The urgent message followed after an escalating military conflict looming over the region.

After a rocket—believed to be launched from Lebanese territory—tragically killed 12 children in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, speculations of Israel responding with force have been brewing.

This potential retaliation prompted the DFAT to raise the alarm through Smartraveller.

A recent conflict in Lebanon prompted the Australian government to issue an immediate travel warning. Image Credit: Shutterstock/Ramiz Dallah

In a warning, they advised against all travel to Lebanon due to the 'volatile security situation and the risk of the security situation deteriorating further'.

Australians should make immediate plans to depart while commercial flights are available.

Airlines like Lufthansa, Swiss, and Eurowings have already suspended flights to and from Beirut until 5 August.

Air France followed suit and cancelled their flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Beirut for several days.

The said airlines started monitoring the situation closely for updates.

Lebanon's Beirut Airport could shut down amid the conflict.

The airport's closure could mean many travellers, including Australians, would be stranded in the country.

Those who chose to stay in the area could do so at their own risk.

Government assistance may be limited should conditions in Lebanon worsen.

The escalation of military action in southern Lebanon—characterised by rocket and missile fire as well as airstrikes—is a harrowing reminder of the region's instability.

The conflict has the potential to spread, affect other areas, and severely limit safe travel and evacuation routes.

The Australian government advised against travelling to the region since 19 October last year, but the current situation calls for immediate action.

For those with family members or friends in Lebanon, the government's warning prompted a critical time to act.

Keep travel documents in order and stay informed through reliable news sources and the Smartraveller website for advisories.

Most importantly, leave the country as soon as possible.

We urge all our members to take heed of these warnings and prioritise their safety and that of their loved ones.

Key Takeaways

• The Australian government urged Australians to leave Lebanon immediately due to escalating security tensions.
• The situation in Lebanon started escalating after an alleged bombing in an Israeli-occupied territory, killing 12 children in the process.
• Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France, Swiss, and Eurowings already cancelled flights to and from Beirut for safety purposes.
• The Australian government issued a travel warning to the country in October last year and emphasised the importance of safety during the brewing conflict.

Do you have any family members or friends in Lebanon? Let us know your thoughts about the situation in the comments below.

 

[Jest]

who in their right mind would travel to these murderous countries? I stand for israel.

 

[freedy50]

Who would go to a terrorist country that is trying to take part in a war that's got nothing to do with them?
And their food is revolting as well.
Another country wasting money on weapons and not their people.

God bless

 

[Rob44]

who in their right mind would travel to these murderous countries? I stand for israel.

I just don't like those who behave as did the Nazis.

 

[novezar]

Any aussie who wants to get out maybe lucky enough to hire a donkey & cart. A great mode of travel with all comforts provided.

 

[Rob44]

Who would go to a terrorist country that is trying to take part in a war that's got nothing to do with them?
And their food is revolting as well.
Another country wasting money on weapons and not their people.

God bless

Lebanon was quite a decent place until Israel bombed itback around when, 1982? So once was Palestine until a bunch of religious extremists from Europe decided to settle there and kick out the local inhabitants.

 

[novezar]

I'm with U Jest. The Israelies are probably the Smartest of all. I just hope that they FINALISE their situation on the ARSEHOLES around them good & proper, ONCE & FOR ALL.

If I was one of the leaders of HAMAS living the luxury & the Life Of Riley in another nearby country, I'd be SHIT SCARED of when the AGENTS of MOSSAD will come & pay 'em a visit.

Don't worry, they are PEGGED & it will happen. Mark my words, watch & see. They know wot the're doing.

Too smart for those Arseholes.

 

[relljube]

They can keep all their shit over there - but no doubt there will be the usual hue and cry about the Australian Government having to send in special flights to rescue these idiots who do not listen to any warnings issued. If the worst happens - leave the idiots there to find their own way out - sick of the Aus public purse being raided to save these ignoramuses from themselves.

 

[Rob44]

They can keep all their shit over there - but no doubt there will be the usual hue and cry about the Australian Government having to send in special flights to rescue these idiots who do not listen to any warnings issued. If the worst happens - leave the idiots there to find their own way out - sick of the Aus public purse being raided to save these ignoramuses from themselves.

I'm with U Jest. The Israelies are probably the Smartest of all. I just hope that they FINALISE their situation on the ARSEHOLES around them good & proper, ONCE & FOR ALL.

If I was one of the leaders of HAMAS living the luxury & the Life Of Riley in another nearby country, I'd be SHIT SCARED of when the AGENTS of MOSSAD will come & pay 'em a visit.

Don't worry, they are PEGGED & it will happen. Mark my words, watch & see. They know wot the're doing.

Too smart for those Arseholes.

Perhaps if Japan had invaded Australia in 1941 you would have done your bit and tried to shoot a few? Or would you have signed up with a bunch of fellow Quislings in the hope of kicking around a few Australians?Or maybe you would have found a leaky boat to try to get to New Zealand en route to Hawaii? Three choices; what would yours have been?

 

[relljube]

Perhaps if Japan had invaded Australia in 1941 you would have done your bit and tried to shoot a few? Or would you have signed up with a bunch of fellow Quislings in the hope of kicking around a few Australians?Or maybe you would have found a leaky boat to try to get to New Zealand en route to Hawaii? Three choices; what would yours have been

Perhaps if Japan had invaded Australia in 1941 you would have done your bit and tried to shoot a few? Or would you have signed up with a bunch of fellow Quislings in the hope of kicking around a few Australians?Or maybe you would have found a leaky boat to try to get to New Zealand en route to Hawaii? Three choices; what would yours have been?

??? not sure what you are alluding to - too clever for me

 

[Rob44]

Simple. If one's country is invaded by a bunch of foreigners, and one is forcibly dispossessed by those foreigners acting with violence, then one has the absolute right to fight back with whatever one has to hand for as long as one chooses or is able. That has been what has gone on in Ireland, in Armenia, in France, Norway, Denmark, the USSR, the Polish Warsaw Ghetto, is going on in Ukraine, and has been going on in Palestine since 1947.

An interesting book was written by one "Yank" Levy, published on behalf of the British government in 1940 by Penguin Publications, as to how British resistance fighters ( from the German point of view, terrorists) should go about crippling and killing Germans should the German Army invade the UK after Dunkirk.

The local resistance fighters are usually called 'terrorists ' by the violently occupying power and 'heroic resistance fighters' by those people who have been invaded and commonly raped , dispossessed and indeed murdered.

As for Moses and his crowd leaving Egypt for the future Palestine and what we have come to call Isrel, if the Old Testament is to be cited by politicians as history and the justification for the present extermination campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, Moses and his mob were just as murderous as any foreign power invading someone else's land.

Such invasions cause refugees to seek refuge elsewhere, often via dangerously leaky boats.

Understand, now?

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

Simple. If one's country is invaded by a bunch of foreigners, and one is forcibly dispossessed by those foreigners acting with violence, then one has the absolute right to fight back with whatever one has to hand for as long as one chooses or is able. That has been what has gone on in Ireland, in Armenia, in France, Norway, Denmark, the USSR, the Polish Warsaw Ghetto, is going on in Ukraine, and has been going on in Palestine since 1947.

An interesting book was written by one "Yank" Levy, published on behalf of the British government in 1940 by Penguin Publications, as to how British resistance fighters ( from the German point of view, terrorists) should go about crippling and killing Germans should the German Army invade the UK after Dunkirk.

The local resistance fighters are usually called 'terrorists ' by the violently occupying power and 'heroic resistance fighters' by those people who have been invaded and commonly raped , dispossessed and indeed murdered.

As for Moses and his crowd leaving Egypt for the future Palestine and what we have come to call Isrel, if the Old Testament is to be cited by politicians as history and the justification for the present extermination campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, Moses and his mob were just as murderous as any foreign power invading someone else's land.

Such invasions cause refugees to seek refuge elsewhere, often via dangerously leaky boats.

Understand, now?

Well articulated

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

Simple. If one's country is invaded by a bunch of foreigners, and one is forcibly dispossessed by those foreigners acting with violence, then one has the absolute right to fight back with whatever one has to hand for as long as one chooses or is able. That has been what has gone on in Ireland, in Armenia, in France, Norway, Denmark, the USSR, the Polish Warsaw Ghetto, is going on in Ukraine, and has been going on in Palestine since 1947.

An interesting book was written by one "Yank" Levy, published on behalf of the British government in 1940 by Penguin Publications, as to how British resistance fighters ( from the German point of view, terrorists) should go about crippling and killing Germans should the German Army invade the UK after Dunkirk.

The local resistance fighters are usually called 'terrorists ' by the violently occupying power and 'heroic resistance fighters' by those people who have been invaded and commonly raped , dispossessed and indeed murdered.

As for Moses and his crowd leaving Egypt for the future Palestine and what we have come to call Isrel, if the Old Testament is to be cited by politicians as history and the justification for the present extermination campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, Moses and his mob were just as murderous as any foreign power invading someone else's land.

Such invasions cause refugees to seek refuge elsewhere, often via dangerously leaky boats.

Understand, now?

Your whole post puts a different slant on how a number of Australians would view global affairs. That only a few have/had experienced a direct attack on this land (speaking for the last 80 odd years only) may be the reason for this.

Travel broadens the mind a little bit, but not so expansively as actually working and living with people in different countries.

It was the penultimate paragraph, to a degree, that takes me closer to answering an issue I had been wrestling with in relation to what exactly does history reveal about the situation and why some, in 1947 thought it a good idea to create an Israeli state - a pinprick within an Arab landscape - and not create a Palestine state. I'm still in the go figure stage.

I do believe I would have chosen to 'terrorise' the Japanese invaders, with relish, (had it turned out that way) and not to cross the ditch in a reed boat.

 

[Knell]

Perhaps if Japan had invaded Australia in 1941 you would have done your bit and tried to shoot a few? Or would you have signed up with a bunch of fellow Quislings in the hope of kicking around a few Australians?Or maybe you would have found a leaky boat to try to get to New Zealand en route to Hawaii? Three choices; what would yours have been?

100%! It really is that obvious!

 

[Knell]

Your whole post puts a different slant on how a number of Australians would view global affairs. That only a few have/had experienced a direct attack on this land (speaking for the last 80 odd years only) may be the reason for this.

Travel broadens the mind a little bit, but not so expansively as actually working and living with people in different countries.

It was the penultimate paragraph, to a degree, that takes me closer to answering an issue I had been wrestling with in relation to what exactly does history reveal about the situation and why some, in 1947 thought it a good idea to create an Israeli state - a pinprick within an Arab landscape - and not create a Palestine state. I'm still in the go figure stage.

I do believe I would have chosen to 'terrorise' the Japanese invaders, with relish, (had it turned out that way) and not to cross the ditch in a reed boat.

Not sure my Dad “relished” his job as part of a Commando Squadron in New Guinea, other than that it was necessary. He never expressed any animosity towards the Japanese, never any hate speech ever. I guess he was one of the fortunate ones to not have experienced a POW camp, however. One of the main memories I have …he used to sing to me when I was very young at bedtime…every night, the same song…"It’s a long way to Tipperary”….the significance of which, to him anyway, I do not know and never thought to ask…just reminiscing, apropos of nothing lol PEACE!

 

[JimmyFlatrock]

Not sure my Dad “relished” his job as part of a Commando Squadron in New Guinea

Completely understood. Nor mine defending Darwin during the bombings. Nor other family in Tobruk and NG.

The "relish" comment is completely out of context for those situations, but perhaps apt for a hypothetical successful invasion of Australia that I was referring to.

 

[Knell]

Completely understood. Nor mine defending Darwin during the bombings. Nor other family in Tobruk and NG.

The "relish" comment is completely out of context for those situations, but perhaps apt for a hypothetical successful invasion of Australia that I was referring to.

For sure! It wasn't a jab...just a reflective thought. Cheers.